Could Your Workplace Anxiety Be Inherited?
Could your anxiety at work be inherited? We often talk about managing workplace stress, but what if some of your biggest challenges—like fear of failure or chronic self-doubt—aren’t just about today’s pressures?
Read on to discover how intergenerational trauma might be impacting your career—and what you can do about it.
Feeling It Physically: How Emotions Manifest in the Body and What It Means
Where do specific emotions physically manifest in the body? A study by Nummenmaa et al. (2013) asked over 700 participants to color in areas of their body where they felt increased or decreased sensations when provided with different emotional cues. The results were striking: universally, emotions were experienced in consistent places in the body.
Last week, I was bitten by a dog
Our bodies have a lot to say, especially when under stress. In this article, I share a real-life moment (I got bit by a dog!) that taught me the crucial lesson of tuning into those signals to better distinguish between true danger and perceived threats. Discover why judgment isn't the answer and how we can thrive by embracing our instincts.
What if everything that was wrong… was all connected?
After 8+ years of working in corporate and startup environments across Southeast Asia, I reached a point of feeling stuck myself — I was anxious, irritable, and distracted. There was a constant nagging from inside that I struggled to comprehend or quiet.
It took seeing a loved one fall into deep depression for me to confront the misalignment within myself. Through a series of ebbs, flows, and therapy-aided realizations, I found what being well looked like for me and imagined everything it might unlock.
Navigating Triggers: Unveiling Paths to Healing and Growth
Triggers. They're familiar to us all. Often, they are unwelcome stressors or disturbances we try to avoid at all costs. But what if I told you that triggers could actually be catalysts for transformation? As we learn to approach our triggers with compassion, awareness, and proactivity, we unveil paths to growth, healing, and profound change.
Distinguishing Perception From Feeling & Why It’s Important
Perceptions are meaning-making – they are an interpretation of experience, and help to shape our understanding of the world around us. But feelings are experience – they don’t lie. The ability to distinguish between perceptions and feelings can be tricky, but gives us the power to better manage our emotional wellbeing.
So, how do we differentiate between the two?
Why Resistance Turns Pain Into More Pain
Life is a journey fraught with pain, yet many of us are ill-prepared to confront it head-on. A typical reaction is resistance. We feign normalcy, pretending all is okay while drowning in despair. This resistance amplifies the pain–it makes the pain feel bigger, stronger, and less in our control. All the while, narratives about ourselves and the world also grow, trapping in emotions like anger, shame, and unhappiness. What is the antidote to this?
Finding Freedom in the Space Between
When you find yourself in a tense situation, its adrenaline effect creates a gap between your action and reaction. A minuscule second that’s barely noticeable, yet large enough to cause either an impulsive reaction or a pensive action. In that second, how can we gain freedom?